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  1. AustinValentine

    Chicago area headphone meet - August 13th 2016 - ChiUniFi

    50/50 on tomorrow. Got "roped into" teaching a faculty in-service tomorrow morning possibly extending into the early afternoon.   If I do show, it'll be for socializing and listening. No gear.
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    LH Labs Geek Out v2+ Discussion Thread

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  3. AustinValentine

    Chicago area headphone meet - August 13th 2016 - ChiUniFi

    Will almost certainly be there for this one -- my wife and I can't travel out of state again until August 22nd due to work. (Win!)   Will update later with what I'll be bringing. Most likely though, it'll be my Modi Multibit [arrives tomorrow] > SWA-built AMB M^3 > modded HD650. 
  4. AustinValentine

    LH Labs Geek Out v2+ Discussion Thread

      Neither did I. Not sure what's going on with that.
  5. AustinValentine

    iPhone 6s Sound Quality

      I actually moved from my LG V10 to the 6S Plus. Why is that?   1. The amp on the LG V10 has variable output power based on headphone impedance. There's no way to control it directly, but you can trick it into "Aux" (full power) output by plugging in your headphone cable into the phone...
  6. AustinValentine

    Chicago area Headphone Meet - Feb 6th 2016 - ChiUniFi

      You know it  And thanks for the suggestion! (It doesn't prevent colds for me, but I do find that it takes the edge off.)     And thanks everyone for the well-wishes and sympathies. I'm hope today's meet was as awesome in person as it looked like it would be on paper.
  7. AustinValentine

    Chicago area Headphone Meet - Feb 6th 2016 - ChiUniFi

    Woke up with a head cold :(  Not going to come down there and spread it all over everyone's gear.    Have a good meet everyone! Take notes, because I want to definitely see a vital, active impressions thread so I can have some vicarious enjoyment later. 
  8. AustinValentine

    New Leckerton UHA-6S MKII Portable Headphone Amplifier Announced (Update User Impressions Added July 20th 2012)

      Yep - something like a revised UHA-4 or a Leckerton Apex Glacier equivalent would be ideal (keeping the crossfeed from the UHA-4 would be great too). 
  9. AustinValentine

    Chicago area Headphone Meet - Feb 6th 2016 - ChiUniFi

    I'll be coming out to the meet for visit, social, and listening time - but won't be bringing gear. 
  10. AustinValentine

    LH Labs Geek Out v2+ Discussion Thread

      Batch 1 here - haven't heard a thing from them. Not one peep. I asked for a refund back in November and got the response that,     Completely infuriating. 
  11. AustinValentine

    Official Chicago August 8 2015 Impression Thread

    Feb 6th would work better for me, but I can try to make whichever.
  12. AustinValentine

    ☯️ Cavalli Audio's Liquid Carbon... a $599 Cavalli amp???

      The Fostex just needs a cable re-termination to 4 pin XLR (it's hardwired). I'd add the Blackwood, Omni (semi-closed like the fostex), Paradox & Paradox Slants, and the Enigma to the list as well. Lots of great closed choices for the LC.
  13. AustinValentine

    LH Labs Geek Out v2+ Discussion Thread

      Yeah, the Sony TRRRS connectors are nice. Given that the unit had to be bigger than the regular V2 USB dongle-style units anyway to accommodate the battery, there would have been two things that would have been fantastic to have seen in the larger design: a Kobiconn connector for balanced...
  14. AustinValentine

    ☯️ Cavalli Audio's Liquid Carbon... a $599 Cavalli amp???

    I'd go for a Tripp Lite Isobar (~$40.00) just for the added assurance. But yeah, given the nature of Alex's custom SMPS, I'd expect that it's not going to benefit much from complex power conditioning or sanitizing gear.      This. He definitely mentioned it somewhere back there.   Here I...
  15. AustinValentine

    Questyle QP1

      Everyone's complaints about BartSimpson1976's comments have to be taken in context. The difference between you and BartSimpson1976 is that you haven't done the following:    - Posted 59 out of 283 (over 20%) of your total posts in the QP1 thread;  - Started complaining about the DAP nearly...
  16. AustinValentine

    LH Labs Geek Out v2+ Discussion Thread

      Mine is June 3, 2015: Geek Out V2+ Pre-Order $283.    Pre-Order over at LH labs is May 6th, 2015 (1:47 PM).
  17. AustinValentine

    ☯️ Cavalli Audio's Liquid Carbon... a $599 Cavalli amp???

    Very nice! I suppose I should check-in here too: Serial #35 here, have had it running since 21st.    LC sounded amazing with my Gumby. I've had to move to a fully portable rig for work-related reasons (bye bye Gumby, for now), so this weekend/early next week it's going to get tried out via...
  18. AustinValentine

    ☯️ Cavalli Audio's Liquid Carbon... a $599 Cavalli amp???

    By the by, it looks like the Eddie Current Black Widow is out of production now (or - possibly - moving to a DIY kit). And their new upcoming solid state amp for the new year, the Eddie Current Copperhead, is a different, brighter signature. So, anyone who was waiting for a few production run of...
  19. AustinValentine

    LH Labs Geek Out v2+ Discussion Thread

      Nice! I'm an early batch 1 order so - hopefully - I'll have one going out soon as well. 
  20. AustinValentine

    ☯️ Cavalli Audio's Liquid Carbon... a $599 Cavalli amp???

      Don't. Use. The. Bathroom.    (They always buzz when I'm in the bathroom.)
  21. AustinValentine

    Cavalli Audio's Liquid Carbon Owners Impressions

    My own production unit will be here sometime this week -- so I'm pretty pumped about it. Can't wait to get it in and paired with the Gumby. Just going to copy my impressions from August over to this thread for utility's sake:   
  22. AustinValentine

    LH Labs Geek Out v2+ Discussion Thread

      USB Audio Player Pro.
  23. AustinValentine

    Android phones and USB DACs

    A big one for me would be: having the tracks of individual albums under Artist > Album be sorted by track number (like they are under the Album main sort header) as opposed to alphabetically.   Having Artist > All be alphabetized makes sense, but having the tracks in individual albums under a...
  24. AustinValentine

    ZMF Ori (Omni) - Upcoming Semi Open Flagship

      I've heard the Blackwood, Vibro mk1, and an Omni prototype on the H10 and they all sounded very good driven by that amp. (FWIW, the H10 is essentially a V200 clone with some small changes.)   The H10 is opamp rollable too - if you search around you can find opamps that will assist with...
  25. AustinValentine

    The Deals DISCUSSION Thread (READ THE FIRST POST!!!)

      Source? Everything I've seen has said the other way around, but I'm happy to reverse it if Beyer came up with it first. I seem to remember the AK10 coming out first.    Headroom promotional materials apparently said, "Originally the Astell&Kern AK10, Beyerdynamic has now officially...
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